[TenTec] Being a Contrarian...."

[Duane Calvin]

If your scenario is correct, then this is exactly the "wrong" thinking that
many have described TT as having in writing the code in the first place.  As
someone who deals in firmware bugs every day, this thinking displays a
profound lack of understanding of the problem!

   73, Duane

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Toby Pennington
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:18 PM
To: Ten Tec List
Subject: [TenTec] Being a Contrarian...."

Tommy W4BQF wrote.........I was a contributing member of the 
beta test group and that sad experience convinced me that Ten Tec 
would never get the firmware corrected. It wasn't back then and it 
isn't today...but at least you have a color screen.........

Someone mentioned to me that, " Ten Tec has badly mismanaged the software
design task, and they have failed to maintain internal revision control and
documentation, and the firmware is now a twisted road of undocumentated
patces and fixes by many hands,  some of which are no longer around. " 

Perhaps someone could decipher this for me in plain words,  but it seems to
indicate that TT could use some expert outside programming help.  

The same person I quoted above also said, "The Orion DSP code and control
interface is really a pretty routine and light weight project for those that
are familiar with this type of thing. There are hundreds of professional
programmers that work every day with sound card and other audio DSP apps at
the core level, and thousands of programmers that are very familiar with
embedded user control hardware boxes that could knock out the necessary code
in a few weeks from the ground up."  

Another rewrite of the code by some really good professionals?  Something to
think about!

Toby  W4CAK  P.S.  Name of the quotee is being withheld to protect whats
left of his sanity>>
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